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He watched as she screamed and yelled with every strike that the man made to her face. From her mouth, she spit blood that was rolling down her face. He continued to watch the man repeatedly hit and kick the woman in the stomach, again and again."Noooo stop! Please stop!" as she yelled his closed fist went upside her head. Michael knew he had to do something to stop the man from beating the beautiful woman.

In this evocative short piece, Candace worries that her mother, Annie, has reached an emotional breaking point. When her best friend loses her battle with cancer, Annie is acting in uncharacteristic ways, seemingly less concerned than ever about what her friends and neighbors think of her - a troubling development in her daughter’s eyes. But while Candace may think she knows her mother better than anyone, something deeper lingers beneath the surface, and times of hardship have a way of bringing us closer together than ever.

All of Chenille Abrams' dreams came true the day she married NFL star Brayden Carpenter. He's the down-to-earth, loving, and protective man she never thought she'd find. And with her own successful career, Chenille plans to be more than just a famous athlete's wife. She's determined to balance work, marriage, and motherhood, as the couple awaits their first child.... Until their son is born with a crippling heart ailment. Until a devastated Brayden starts putting his career above everything else. And when tragedy strikes, Chenille struggles to find a reason to go on....

Darica's world is turned upside down, as she becomes aware that her desires, her husband's selfishness, and her lover's past created a wrath that sent her knocking on death's door. But, realizing the error of her ways won't turn back the hands of time and undo the unthinkable things she did to get to this point. Rolanda thought she raised her sons to value women, unlike their abusive, cheating father; she even married another man to give them a better life. But, she quickly learned that DNA plays a major role in relationships and family ties are hard to break.

Join twenty-four-year-old Tara Walker on a poignant odyssey as she unearths her secret journal, a powerful testament to her life's trials and tribulations. From her raw, often harrowing childhood, marred by addiction, alcoholism, and predators, to the unwavering support of her hardworking parents, Tara's inspiring journey unfolds. Through adversity and rejection, she emerges as a resilient, intelligent young woman who confronts her traumatic past with unwavering determination, ultimately embracing the true meaning of life, happiness, family, and unconditional love.

When 24-year-old Tara Walker goes home for her brother's funeral, she discovers the secret journal she started when she was eight. As she reads, she is pulled back into her complicated, raw, and often frightening childhood, where drug addiction, alcoholism and predators brought chaos into her privileged, middle-class home.

După ce partenera lui dintr-o aventură mai veche îl abandonează într-o cameră de motel, Jack Reacher își reia călătoria fără o țintă anume și lasă norocul să-i aleagă calea. Ajunge astfel la un banal magazin de amanet unde îi atrage atenția un obiect ciudat: un inel de absolvent al Academiei Militare West Point – un trofeu greu de obținut și la care titularul n-ar renunța ușor. Și mai ciudat este că inelul descoperit de Reacher pare să fi aparținut unei femei.

Summer 1943. Harlem is a never-ending carnival in the second year of the war. Yet underneath the glitter, its black residents remain second-class citizens, and the neighborhood is a tinderbox, waiting for a match. Along these restless streets, two very different young men will cross paths. Their...

În "ținutul porumbului" din Nebraska există un mister sinistru… iar Jack Reacher se trezește direct implicat în el. Mai întâi, se pune rău cu clanul Duncan, care a terorizat și domină întregul ținut. Dar ceea ce nu-l lasă pe Reacher să plece este cazul nerezolvat, vechi de decenii, al unui copil dispărut. Cei din clanul Duncan vor ca Reacher să dispară – și nu încearcă să ascundă doar secretele din trecutul lor. Căci, oricât de periculoși ar fi, ei se află doar pe treapta de jos a unei adevărate rețele a criminalității, extinse pe o jumătate de glob.

Seta is a good girl gone bad. She’s tried for years to gain her father’s love and attention, but all he does is ignore her. And she’s tired of it. So if being good won’t get her anywhere, she may as well be bad. Seta’s high school years bring a series of bad decisions, alcohol, sex, and a host of other things she uses to escape the pain she feels. Not even a praying grandmother can keep her from the path she is so set on taking. Seta’s quest for acceptance leads her to one secret so terrible, she hopes no one ever finds out. Will her quest cause her to lose everything?

Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. The Dark Fantastic is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction. Grounded in her experiences as YA novelist, fan-fiction writer, and scholar of education, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some of the most popular stories of the early 21st century.

Nothing can mend a broken heart quite like family. Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most important, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family's past. Like many family histories, it is fractured and stubbornly reluctant to reveal its secrets. But Sherry is determined to know the full story. In a few days' time, her extended family will gather for a reunion, and Sherry sets off across the country with her mother, Dumpling, to join them.

An epic account of one remarkable woman's quest for justice from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow of the South and A Separate Country. In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock--the "Widow of the South"--has quietly built a new life...